ith Jan.
'Pus lady who writes over the pseudonym of "Nellie Bly" is one of the brightest and most successful of woman journal lists. Her prototype, as we' were told in the now forgotten poem, was in the habit of shutting her eye sometimes, but all through the journey that she is now makiug—and she should now be nearing San Francisco—* Miss Bly will keep her eyes and ears open; will note this, that, and everything, and the number of things she can see in a given time is very great." That she will accomplish her journey round the world in seventy-five' days is, bar accidents, certain, and it is not so very long since Jules Verne had to invent the most extraordinary expedients to get his hero round the world in eighty days.
Miss Bly, it appears, left New York by the German steamer Augusta Victoria for Southampton on the 14th of November last, having received her orders to make the trip on the 11th. Three days' notice to make a trip round the world is not very long For the ordinary traveller, but it is long enough for a special correspondent. who travels as lightly equipped as Miss Bly, for all her voxgnse is a grip-sack, sixteen by seven inches on the bottom, a bundle of wraps for steamer use, and a courier bag slung over her shoulder. Her dresses are—or were when she started—a blue plaid in ladies' cloth, and a brown camel's hair. She has a cap with double peak, quite English, you know; a heavy Scotch plaid ulster for warmth, and a gossamer waterproof for rainy spells, without having an umbrella at all. There is evidently still an idea that travellers in the East must have no baggage that they cannot carry themselves, and that a racer against time, like Miss Bly, would be beaten unless care was taken that there should be "no checking of trunks, no looking after laggard boxes, no turning over of baggage, no going on to have the trank follow in the van of some other traly, or possibly never to follow at all." Une would imagine that the people who despatched Miss Bly thought that when she got to one terminus, she would have to jump into a cab and catch the onto going boat to the next terminus, and so on, and might lose a connection altogether if she had any baggage to look after. On the other haud her itinerary was carefully drawn up, and has been ery accurately observed. She was due
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